Incorrect time with Mexico_City time zone

[joseserrano15]

Description

Recently, in Mexico the time change was removed. The problem is that if I put the time zone America/Mexico_City, I get the wrong time (one hour more than the current one). I have a windows server in which the time is correct.

The following code:

<?php

date_default_timezone_set('America/Mexico_City');
echo date('H:i:s');
?>

Resulted in this output:

11:39:30

But I expected this output instead:

10:39:30

PHP Version

7.3

Operating System

Windows Server 2012

[iluuu1994]

You're on a very old PHP version. Please test something that is actively supported (8.1 or 8.2).

[joseserrano15]

Thanks, I did some tests and it works fine as of version 8.1.13. Is there a way to make it work in php 7? Doing a version migration is not very easy for us at the moment.

[iluuu1994]

Probably not, unless you can find the responsible bugfix (which might be part of a library update, so not trivial to apply) and patching/compiling PHP yourself. There are some companies that provide LTS for PHP (e.g. Zend) but I don't know what kind of patches they apply.

[iluuu1994]

Thanks for getting back though! Unfortunately there's nothing we can do here.

[heiglandreas]

have you tried using https://pecl.php.net/package/timezonedb ?

It does not free you from updating your PHP version but might take out the immediate pressure. At least as long as it is supported for your PHP version.Do not expect that to work forever!